If there’s ever a time to get political, they tell us that this is it. The 2012 imperial, state, and local elections will be held this coming Tuesday, and with them a new era of egomania.

The most overhyped and least important race to the individual voter should be the US presidential election. The individual has the least amount of sway in that race, and change is never more than a hope for the corrupt charmers who accept the deals necessary to privilege oneself to either of the duopoly party’s factions. By his actions more than his words, the first term of Barack Obama shall be judged. And by considering his active advancement of the military industry, both abroad and domestically through the militarization of police, the dear leader is revealed as a shapeshifter whose original, charming facade of representing peace has faded. Today in Concord, Barack revved the crowd to reminders of his ordered hit on Osama Bin Laden, and generally dodged all foreign policy, incorrectly claiming to have ended the war in Iraq, and citing plans just over the horizon to end conflict in Afghanistan.

Though I digress, because the presidential election is not actually about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The election is about who the individual voter feels is the most principled and prepared person to undertake the tasks of the almighty office of the US president. Flocking, many people will select from prescribed candidates of the red and blue team.

I encourage you to select the D or R option if D or R’s candidate is who you actually want to helm the office of chairman of the empire. Penn Jillette can enlighten you as to why there is no such thing as voting against a candidate. It is important to have standards. In this election, simple standards, such as holding politicians to oppose using flying robots to shoot explosives at families of people who might be terrorists, will require individuals who adhere to these principles to either vote third party, or not vote for president. New Hampshire’s ballot is accessible in that write-in candidates can simply be pencilled in on the paper ballot, there are no computers or lever machines such as in foreign jurisdictions. The voter has a total ability to decide their choice of the most qualified candidate for an office. For what it’s worth, state law mandates that votes for living humans be tallied.

Vermin Supreme is a man of the people who has participated in historic protests including both major political party’s national conventions, Occupy Boston, New Hampshire, and Wall Street events, and the NATO Summit in Chicago. He is the only presidential candidate I am aware of who has voluntarily situated himself between young people wearing masks and riot police. Having promised to personally kill the unborn baby Hitler after the discovery of time travel, a rugged man of this sort would not require the hyperbolic entourage of a security detail we’ve come to associate with the office.

I admire aspects of both candidates Gary Johnson (libertarian party) and Jill Stein (green party). Realistically, neither will win, though Johnson is expected to have a good showing in the state, as his name is among the four printed on the ballot, along with Virgil Goode. And Vermin Supreme will not win either. But in deciding on principle, I know that honesty is a principle on which Vermin Supreme can be counted on.

His four plank platform, which includes zombie preparedness, time travel research, mandatory teeth-brushing laws, and a free pony for all US citizens, is a realistic parody of exactly what Mittrack Obamney and his ancestors before him embody. In a few month’s time, when the public begins to collectively breathe the odor of whoever the new administration is, we can expect it to be emanating from a bloated boondoggle of a bureaucrat’s ‘great idea’ gone sour. And whatever that idea might be, it would not compare to the great ideas in Vermin Supreme’s platform.

1) Zombie preparedness could replace the entire national offense budget. Soldiers could come home and stop killing and dying in wars, and the risk of zombie apocalypse would likely drop as a result.

2) Time travel technology would give humans the ability to go into the future, where all the better, cheaper technology is, which can replace jobs. Of all scientific research needs, this seems the most pressing.

3) Ponies are the ultimate economic stimulus. If everyone had a pony, they’d have transportation, fellowship, and in the case of an emergency, food. Vermin has also discussed an economic stimulus associated with building new housing for all of the free ponies.

4) The most fundamentally governmental plank of Vermin’s platform is the coercive plank, the mandatory brushing of teeth. While it’s a violation of an individual’s rights to mandate that they perform an action, just think of all the things today human cattle accept as mandatory and perform without question. Seat belts have been a cause of death in vehicular collisions, and while not brushing your teeth may not be lethal, it can be said that you are not truly living if you are storing partially digested food on your enamel. Nobody’s going to want to be around you!

While these particular planks may not be instituted by the next president, some mutation of each surely will. In this way, we can be sure that some form of vermin will be victorious in this election. It is only if you write in Vermin Supreme that you will have selected the honest one.

I still need to do some reading on a few measures. I am a big procrastinator.

A guy came to my door today to remind me to vote by tomorrow (door to door guy) and I realsied I thought that today was the fourth and that I had TWO more days, not just until tomorrow. So then I had to mad frenzy and figure out where I put my ballot (we get our ballots in the mail in Oregon, and have the option of mailing them in if we wish, but you have to send them in time for the mail to make it by election day. My last ballot, and James', that was just on a couple of city issues here in the dumb suburb I live in, I mailed in too late and got back two little notification cards a couple weeks later saying our ballots were not counted as we mailed them too late. So I'll be dropping mine at the library tomorrow in person. We do still have poll booths too, I think, in Oregon, but I have never used one, only every mailed it in or dropped it at a drop site)

Measure on the ballot in Oregon, for the first time ever, to completely legalize marijuana in our state. Make it commercially available in stores, or allowed to grow your own and carry it for personal use, with no restrictions except age restrictions.

I've never seen that before and I believe there is a good likely hood it could pass. If not this time around then by the next. I mean the fact that it actually made it on the ballot is amazing and a sing that it won't be long. Ever since I can remember advocates have been attempting to get something like this on the ballot, but petitioners must collect something like 100,000 (maybe more, not sure?) registered voter signatures to get something approved for the statewide ballot.

The signature requirement for a measure that would cause full legalization has never been reached before to my knowledge. Only ones for lesser things like decriminalization (making possession of a small amount only an infraction no worse than a speeding ticket) and different failed and approved attempts at regulation and medical use.

I don't even smoke pot, but I have always believed that it is ludicrous that it is illegal.

It is interesting to watch such deep changes in cultural attitude, too.

We tend to stick with silly archaic things out of tradition in America.

Such as having nearly three months off of school in the summer for K-12 students, for another example. So what if the rest of the world is advancing educationally while we fall behind, once upon a time all those youngsters were needed during those months to help prepare for the harvest. Be damned if we educate them better now when they aren't any longer.

this has been circulating on the nets. i'm also curious to see how libertarians feel about this.

does the libertarian party have any contingency when it comes to disasters?

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Everyone's a libertarian until their state is under 10 feet of water.

edit: i might be misunderstanding but i suppose at this point, this would be deferred to the local community to handle, in the spirit of volunteerism and freedom™, which might be difficult since the ones directly affected are expected to mobilize themselves to help other people.

Also, The "tea party"* response to the flooding is, "Well, I have a raft, what's your problem?"

*This current thing calling itself a "tea party" fails to understand that the original was organized to protest international corporations' power over the lives of citizens. Not to give them even more.

Wheeeee! I just woke up, I remember the way we found out 4 years ago. I had classes in the morning, so I had no time to check the news, and at noon I had a date and spent all the time looking at the tv listening to Obama's speech.

An hour or something ago they said Obama may be the first president to win by gaining the electoral vote while losing the popular vote, but now it is looking like Obama has pushed forward and gained the popular vote by a slim margin as well.

An hour or something ago they said Obama may be the first president to win by gaining the electoral vote while losing the popular vote, but now it is looking like Obama has pushed forward and gained the popular vote by a slim margin as well.

They don't call him Bush III for nothing! (There was another pres who did that too).

Everyone's in favor of government assistance until Occupy shows up with things that weren't paid for with stolen money.

Everyone's in favor of government assistance until Occupy shows up with things that weren't paid for with stolen money.

What?

This sentence makes no sense.

Not everyone is in favor of government assistance and Occupy pays for itself while calling for more help and consideration from the government.

I understand what I wrote, I dont understand what you wrote (about Occupy geeting gov't assistance, they dont)

Saying you understand what you wrote does not explain to me what you wrote!!!

I did not say Occupy gets government assistance. Are you paying attention at all? I said Occupy supports itself.

I was deeply entrenched in Occupy for many months last year, like making peanutbutter sandwhichs for hundreds and paying out of pocket for and then spending the time to make hundreds of 99% buttons to give away and spending hours organizing the library and attending the GA and many sub meetings and marching my ass off at every opportunity, I still keep tabs on it, though I have bowed out of direct involvement.

Are you paying attention?!? I think not. You just come and preach at us. Why do you think I get annoyed at you?

I asked what the hell you meant by "Everyone is is favor of government assistance until Occupy shows up"

I think voting for Vermin Supreme sends a message about the status of the system.

And blocking Mittrack O should say what I think about those two posterchildren.

The tick towards the whole number is insignificant, I do not care about that. Positive change will not come from voting, people have just invested themselves into thinking that it's where everything is.

In retrospect, I feel bad for not voting Bradley Manning to an office.

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